Articles

1 Oct 2017

Lean Manufacturing in Anodizing Operations

Here’s how one company applied lean manufacturing principles in its anodizing plant.

Electroplating 1 Oct 2017

Electroless Nickel Baths Get Simpler

How Michigan’s Classic Plating switched to a one-step process to get better brightness.

1 Oct 2017

How to Apply the 720 Rule to Current Density Anodizing

What can you tell me about the 720 Rule as it applies to current density anodizing? Plating expert Sjon Westre, Ph.D., from Chemeon, answers this question.

28 Sep 2017

Nordson, PCI Award BUILDS/PCI Scholarship

$5,000 Nordson BUILDS/PCI Scholarship to college student Benjamin Whipker, who attends the Rochester Institute of Technology and is studying electrical mechanical engineering technology.

22 Sep 2017

Combining 3D Printing and Electroplating for Replicable Experimentation

Andreas Osterwalder calls his office a museum: what looks like a collection of small machines are 3D printed and partially electroplated parts that the scientist has been creating for his experiments.

20 Sep 2017

Michigan Anodizer Hopes to Build New Facility, Add 90+ Jobs

The plant would be comprised of a 68,850-square-foot building on 27 acres in the Fort Custer Industrial Park and employ 50 workers in the initial two years, then 44 workers in the third year.

19 Sep 2017

PPG Foundation Donates $40,000 to Coatings Department at North Dakota State University

New program will complement the university's long-standing coatings and polymeric materials program.

17 Sep 2017

Faraday's Children (and Nickel): The 40th William Blum Lecture

This article is a republication of the 40th William Blum Lecture, presented at the 86th AESF Annual Convention in Detroit, Michigan on June 21, 1999. In this lecture, Dr. George DiBari describes the search for the ideal nickel anode material and the outlook for survival of nickel plating at the end of the 20th century.